ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ORLANDO PIRATES TO WIN THE LEAGUE AFTER BEATING SUPERSPORTS UNITED FC.

Another late, late goal from Orlando Pirates enabled them to score this crucial win over SuperSport United and edge closer to a second Absa Premiership crown in a row. Just as the match seemed destined for a draw, Pirates skipper Lucky Lekgwathi found the winning goal in the very last minute of added time to clinch all the points, sending the Buccaneers three points clear at top of the table, while also possibly ending SuperSport’s challenge with two games to go. Pirates could be deposed as early as this evening provided Mamelodi Sundowns beat off-form Kaizer Chiefs.

Lekgwathi’s second goal in two games upstaged a special strike by Sameegh Doutie, who had drawn SuperSport level early in the second half. Doutie, released by Pirates in January after spending an unfruitful six months in their stable, thought he had ensured Gavin Hunt’s team remain in contention with an unbelievable, curled shot from a freekick on 62 minutes.The evening began with some promise for Pirates, who took the lead through Tokelo Rantie. But until Lekgwathi’s late intervention, Augusto Palacios’s team were unable to press home the advantage of scoring an early goal, and not even the sending off of Edwin Gyimah, the SuperSport midfielder, could help them.

Even though they scored first, Bucs were fortunate not to concede in the early stages of the game. SuperSport’s Frank-lyn Cale, in particular, was tormenting the Pirates defence, and Moeneeb Josephs had to be alert to thwart the midfielder on seven minutes as his shot from range seemed set to find its way into the top corner of the net. Just a minute later Pirates skipper Lekgwathi almost scored an own goal following a Cale corner which the visitors’ defence could not clear properly. Lekgwathi, under pressure, headed the ball towards his own goal but will have thanked his lucky stars to see it bounce against the crossbar, enabling Isaac Chansa to clear. Pirates hadn’t conjured up any forays in the SuperSport danger area until just before the half-hour mark, when Rantie scored his seventh goal of the season.

REAL MADRID AND BARCELONA WHERE DENIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACH MAY 19 FINAL IN MUNICH GERMANY AFTER THEY WHERE KNOCKED OUT IN EUFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SECOND LEG SEMIFANALS

Real Madrid and Barcelona might be the two best soccer teams in Spain, but they are not considered the two best clubs in Europe, at least not on Wednesday.
Barca was denied an opportunity to reach the May 19 final in Munich, Germany by a determined 10-man Chelsea side in a frustrating 3-2 home loss in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League semifinals on Tuesday.

In another stirring, nail-biting semifinal on Wednesday, Los Blancos were stopped in their march to a 10th European crown by a well disciplined Bayern Munich team. They might have won the game on the field -- a 2-1 triumph at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid -- but they ended the aggregate-goals series tied at 3-3, thanks to a 2-1 defeat in Munich last week.
But the German Bundesliga team prevailed in a tense penalty-kick shootout, winning the tie-breaker, 3-1, behind the heroics of goalkeeper Martin Neuer (two saves) and the conversions by David Alaba, Mario Gomez and Bastian Schweinsteiger, who fired home the game-winner into the left side.
Neuer's Real counterpart, World Cup winning goalkeeper Iker Casillas, duplicated his foe's efforts, saving kicks by Toni Kross and Philipp Lahm to bring the hosts back from a two-goal deficit. But he wasn't helped by his teammates as Cristiano Ronaldo, who finished with two goals, including a penalty-kick conversion during the match, and Kaka had theirs saved.
After Xabi Alonso put home his attempt, Sergio Ramos set up Schweinsteiger's heroics by making like an NFL place kicker and blasting his try well over the crossbar and into the crowd.
You have to wonder how much Saturday's El Clasico between Real and Barca took out of both sides -- mentally and physically. Real secured a 2-1 victory in that emotional encounter and on Wednesday the hosts looked like a tired team in the second half and in 30 minutes of extra time.
But that is taking nothing away from Bayern. The German side is a deserved finalist, becoming the first Euro finalist to host the championship confrontation, at Alianza Arena.
The first half, the opening 27 minutes for that matter, was scintillating as all of the goals were scored. Enjoying that 2-1 lead entering the match, Bayern conceded a penalty with the game barely five minutes old. A minute later, Ronaldo fired his spot kick to the lower left side (the same place he sent his ill-fated shootout attempt some two hours later) for a 1-0 lead.
The Portuguese international doubled the lead in the 14th minute as he took advantage of some lackadaisical Bayern defending and launched a 15-yard shot into the lower left corner for his 10th Champions League game in as many matches and 56th goal this season.

It looked like Real was in the driver's seat, but a determined Bayern side had some other ideas, did not panic and continued to plug away. The visitors were rewarded in the 27th minute as Pepe was called for a penalty for taking down Mario Gomez in the box. Dutchman Arjen Robben sent the ensuing spot kick toward the lower left corner. Casillas got his hands on it, but the shot had too much power for him to stop it. Robben, incidentally, was not called on to take a shootout attempt later on.And that was it for the scoring over the next 93 minutes.

Casillas demonstrated his world class by stopping everything that came his way in regulation and extra time, denying Gomez several times. While he made two key saves to bring Real back from the brink in the shootout, he could not stop Schweinsteiger, a member of the Bayern team that lost in the final two years ago.

After Schweinsteiger converted his effort to start a grand celebration by Bayern players and in the city of Munich, Real coach Jose Mourinho immediately turned away and walked into the tunnel. He had seen more than enough.

As it turns out, both of Chelsea's and Bayern's triumphs came at a great cost.

The English Premier League team lost four key regulars for the final. The total included three to yellow-card accumulation and another to a red card -- captain and central defender John Terry.

Munich will be without three starters who also incurred yellow-card suspensions.

The teams won't be at full strength, but Barca coach Pep Guardiola and Mourinho would love to be in that quandary.

It's certainly better than the alternative, which is staying home and watching the final on TV.

For both sides, its wait ‘til next year.

NO CUP FOR KAIZER CHIEFS THIS SEASON,

Its time for Amakhosi to get a new coach or else we gonna find our self's out in top 8 Yet another emergency meeting reflects the deep mire that Chiefs find themselves in after wasting a chance to move closer to the league leaders with just six league games to go.While Chiefs are still mathematically in with a chance of the title, the overwhelming impression left by the 1-0 defeat by the struggling Maritzburg was of a team still firmly stuck in a spiral of inconsistency and with no solution to their problems.It will now likely be seven seasons since the glamour club of South African football last won the league, their mythical dominating aura long since gone.Caretaker coach Donald Khuse put up a feeble defence of his charges' performance in a game in which they were dominant but ultimately failed to force the opposing goalkeeper into more than just a handful of saves."The main problem is that we didn't have any luck. You can play well but if you don't have luck, you lose," he said.While the atmosphere might be brighter after the sacking of Vladimir Vermezovic, the change has done nothing to tighten the team's resolve and a rare trophy-less season awaits the Amakhosi

:Doctor Khumalo, Bobby Motaung and Chiefs caretaker coach Donald "Ace" Khuse during the Nedbank Cup quarterfinal loss to Free State Stars at the weekend. It now looks likely that Amakhosi will go seven seasons without winning the league.

THANKS FOR GOING VLADIMIR VERMEZOVIC.

at last chiefs let V.V go and that was wanted by Amakhosi supporters yesterday kaiser chiefs announced that Vladimir Vermozovic is no longer the head coach of Kaiser chiefs after spending 3 years with Kaiser chiefs we all know that Chiefs wanted to win the Absa Premiership but after three controversial years, their only success under V.V was winning the Telkom Knockout last season That was simply not good enough for a team of Chiefs’ stature.

8 games left for chiefs so now the question is are we going to win the league under ace khuse and Doctor khumalo because we are playing the nedbank cup semi-final on Saturday and we all know that if we loose the nedbank cup the chances of getting the cup this season are gone because Frestate stars its just a team to undermine so with Ace Khuse and Doctor Khumalo are winning all the 8 games tha we left with including the nedbank cup.